"Five Minutes of Fire": England's Got A New Queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, Goodbye

<v Speaker 1>Good night listeners. This is Martin from Tasmania, Australia and
<v Speaker 1>you're having a devil of a time listening to the
<v Speaker 1>Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast. Hello everybody, and welcome
<v Speaker 1>back to the Surely you Can't Be Serious Podcast Special
<v Speaker 1>Edition five Minutes of Fire. We are here talking about
<v Speaker 1>the lyrics of We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel.
<v Speaker 1>We're covering only five minutes at a time, which is
<v Speaker 1>about to link for the song, so it works out
<v Speaker 1>kind of nicely. So please join us as we dive
<v Speaker 1>into some new lyrics today.
<v Speaker 2>All right, guys, So here are the topics that we're
<v Speaker 2>going to be covering today. England's got a new Queen,
<v Speaker 2>Marciano Liberaci.
<v Speaker 1>And Satiana goodbye. England's got a new queen. All right, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>tell me about England's new queen.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So, in February of nineteen fifty two, Princess Elizabeth
<v Speaker 2>of York actually became Queen Elizabeth. Now the interesting thing
<v Speaker 2>here she was never expected to become queen. Her father
<v Speaker 2>acceded to the throne upon the abdication of his brother
<v Speaker 2>Edward the eighth because he wanted to marry an American divorcee.
<v Speaker 2>At that point, a ten year old Elizabeth became the
<v Speaker 2>heir presumptive. She began her training and education to become queen.
<v Speaker 2>Of course, February of nineteen fifty two, King George the
<v Speaker 2>Six passes away. That was her dad, so at age
<v Speaker 2>twenty five.
<v Speaker 1>She becomes queen.
<v Speaker 2>She's known for being wise and beautiful and known for
<v Speaker 2>her style, really until Princess Diana shows up and starts
<v Speaker 2>to kind of overshadow her. She passed away twenty twenty two.
<v Speaker 1>We all remember when that happened. Yeah, last year. All right, dee,
<v Speaker 1>what can you tell me about Marciano? You beat Joe
<v Speaker 1>Louis' z azzo thatigo? Okay? So this is Rocky Marciano,
<v Speaker 1>one of the greatest fighters of all time. He was
<v Speaker 1>born in nineteen twenty three. He was also a high
<v Speaker 1>school dropout and a ditch digger, but ultimately got into boxing.
<v Speaker 1>He faced Joe Louis on October twenty seventh, nineteen fifty one.
<v Speaker 1>He was twenty eight Joe Lewis not one hundred and
<v Speaker 1>fifty seven. He was thirty seven years old. He beat
<v Speaker 1>him good. The next year faced Jersey Joe Walcott now
<v Speaker 1>Rocky was known for his strong jaw, his aggressive style,
<v Speaker 1>and a thing called the susie Q. Susie Q was
<v Speaker 1>an overhanded right punch that was unorthodox. He called it
<v Speaker 1>his susie q because he named it after his girlfriend.
<v Speaker 2>You know why, because he punched your lights out.
<v Speaker 1>No, because they were both knockouts. Nice, I like it,
<v Speaker 1>I like you all right. Unfortunately, he was losing this fight.
<v Speaker 1>He had gotten knocked to the canvas on the very
<v Speaker 1>first round, but managed to stay in it until the
<v Speaker 1>thirteenth round. Now, Jersey Joe also had a signature move,
<v Speaker 1>which was a faint where he would like do a
<v Speaker 1>fake punch and then return with the right. So he
<v Speaker 1>does his little feint in the thirteenth round, but before
<v Speaker 1>he can come back with the right, Rocky Marciano delivers
<v Speaker 1>his susie q and Jersey Joe drops to his knee,
<v Speaker 1>his arm draped over the ropes and doesn't move well
<v Speaker 1>past the count. Marciano remained champion through nineteen fifty six,
<v Speaker 1>when he ultimately retired. He finished his career as a
<v Speaker 1>forty nine and zero win ratio. Unfortunately, nineteen sixty nine,
<v Speaker 1>the day before his forty sixth birthday, he was in
<v Speaker 1>a plane with an inexperienced pilot, crashed and died. That
<v Speaker 1>was a sad end for such an epic and outstanding fighter.
<v Speaker 1>I brought with Rocky Marciana up to my dad and
<v Speaker 1>I was like, did you watch him? He's like watching
<v Speaker 1>the fights was the only thing my dad liked to
<v Speaker 1>watch on TV. So that's what we did together. But
<v Speaker 1>I tell you the guy I really like to watch
<v Speaker 1>with sugar Ey. Oh, there we go, there we go. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>all right, tell me about Liberacci.
<v Speaker 2>Liberacci, otherwise known as the Glitterman or Mister Showmanship. He
<v Speaker 2>was actually born with Lazzio Valentino Liberaci in nineteen nineteen.
<v Speaker 2>He was better known as Lee to his friends and
<v Speaker 2>Walter to his family. He was a pianist, singer, and actor.
<v Speaker 2>Was at one point the highest paid entertainer in the world.
<v Speaker 2>His TV showed The Liberacci Show in nineteen sixty two
<v Speaker 2>was actually watched more than I Love Lucy Wow. Born
<v Speaker 2>in Wisconsin, he had an identical twin who died at birth.
<v Speaker 2>His dad was a musician. His mom did not want
<v Speaker 2>him playing instruments, did not want him wasting time doing that,
<v Speaker 2>so he would sneak out play the piano at Honkey Talks,
<v Speaker 2>but he would tell his parents that he was hanging
<v Speaker 2>out at church socials. He's known for being very extravagant,
<v Speaker 2>very flamboyance. He's got those fancy sequin costumes, brought piano
<v Speaker 2>music to the masses. Despite the fact that he was
<v Speaker 2>very religious and politically conservative. His flamboyancy caused people to
<v Speaker 2>suspect that he was gay, although he vehemently denied that.
<v Speaker 2>But he died of AIDS in nineteen eighty seven. And
<v Speaker 2>I know from Bugs Bunny in the Hide and Hair
<v Speaker 2>cartoon from nineteen fifty five, when Bugs Bunny imitates Liberaci
<v Speaker 2>by saying, I wish my brother George was here. That's
<v Speaker 2>Liberacchi died eighteen eighty seven. Okay, d what do you
<v Speaker 2>got for me? On Satiana?
<v Speaker 1>Goodbye? All right? So Santiana was a philosopher, maybe kind
<v Speaker 1>of famous among other philosophers, but not what you would
<v Speaker 1>describe as a guy who was a big star of
<v Speaker 1>pop culture and politics, like all of the other characters
<v Speaker 1>we've talked about so far. Right, Well, he died in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen fifty two. He was a guy who had been
<v Speaker 1>born in Europe but moved to the US when he
<v Speaker 1>was eight years old. Considered him as self an American,
<v Speaker 1>was well educated, ended up teaching philosophy at Harvard. What
<v Speaker 1>he was known for were his aphorisms. One of those
<v Speaker 1>was only the dead will know the end of war,
<v Speaker 1>but the other one was those who cannot remember the
<v Speaker 1>past are condemned to repeat it. Okay, guys, that does
<v Speaker 1>it for today's episode. Join us next time for five
<v Speaker 1>minutes of fire.